US Patent Issued to STRAUMANN HOLDING on July 21 for "Dental implant thread" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,619, issued on July 21, was assigned to STRAUMANN HOLDING AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Dental implant thread" was invented by Ophir Fromovich (Moshav Adanim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental implant includes a threaded portion extending along a central longitudinal axis from an apical end to a coronal end. The threaded portion includes a core from which threading extends radially outwards, the threading including an apical flank, a coronal flank and a lateral surface connecting the apical and coronal flanks, the lateral surface defining the radially outermost surface of the threading. The threading extends along the length...